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A deco is a small booklet that is made normal envelope size (or smaller) enabling it to be sent through mail from one person to the next. Each person who receives it, decorates one page and sends it to the next person. When the booklet is filled up, the last person sends it back to the person who started it or to whom it was created for. Take a look at this fantastic artistry, this deco is one of the best I’ve ever seen, I really truly loved it!

I wish there was more email addresses in the booklet, but if the artists ever google their own names, chances are they’ll find here.

My nephew and his friend have been nominated for for best new talent in the Age EG Awards. How cool is that? They have a 2 man -band playing some crazy kids stuff… Let’s shall embed a video shall we not?

If you like them, cast your vote right here!

I just found a blog that was just absolutely sweet. Unique, totally. A cartoonists website. Do you get the feeling, when you see something really artistic, that you have to try something like that too? I do, every time. I’ve seen soaps I want to try to make, cartoons, doodles, bead necklaces, book bindings and what not. I want to try that! At the same time, it is so easy to look at what you do yourself, as something quite ordinary. What ever you do yourself, to you it is ordinary. You know how to do it, it comes out naturally, without much of an effort. Someone else would be lost trying to do what you do. But you go: “oh that’s not art, that’s just something I doodle!” But doodles, they are so often so fantastic! A lot of people have their own special thing they doodle. I doodle paper cones. Like the ones in the photo.

What do you doodle? We all know you won’t make money out of it, (well, probably) but it doesn’t mean it’s not art. We could call it disposable art, borrowing the term from my husband who writes “disposable poetry”. Do you have any doodle art on your desk? Pop them into your scanner and show the world in the comments using html-tags!

Although I am not planning to have children in the near future, if ever, I often find myself talking to one of my own, in my imagination. Today, I have one of those life lessons to share with all of you.

I was born with talent. Lots of talent, in lots of different things. I’m talented in writing, singing, designing, modelling, arts and even sports as I am very limber and very coordinated. In sports, although nobody would believe this, I have been actually asked to try out to represent my nation Read the rest of this entry »

In case you haven’t been following, I got this old mannequin doll and have been fixing her up bit by bit. Anyone have ideas for her skin?

She got a bit more attention today. Not quite done yet, but surely I have to report to you where I’m at, right?

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Does anyone know how to fix up mannequin dolls? I don’t really know the do’s and don’t of this little project, but I intend to do my best. When we visited Tasmania last year, I already had… um… Fell in love with a mannequin doll my nephew-in-law had used in a music video or something and had then no need for it. For the summer, she was the “first mate” of my brother-in-law’s boat, guarding it while he was away. (Some house visitor had actually spend a while talking to her before realising that she was a doll. :p)

I regret not taking a before picture. The doll was dirtier than I first thought she was, but I only realised it after scrubbing her down with a tooth brush. :p Fortunately her tacky make up came off more or less, and the glue that had been used to dress her up for a party favour probably, came off of her private parts. The poor girl has been around. Read the rest of this entry »